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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

socalTECH

We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. By 2007, when we started GOGII, we really wanted to break out of the mobile ecosystem, and we were one of the first five companies funded by the Kleiner Perkins iFund. That was our basis for doing something in text messaging.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. So if you are outside the U.S. we are not going to invest. Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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Source13 Gathers the Biggest Names in Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

The company recently closed an impressive $19 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to build out the engineering teams. John Busher, Harry Balls – a humorous site offering reviews and information about mobile apps, primarily indie games. Drives both discoverability and monetization.

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